VIS/PTA Representative Job Description

VIS/PTA rep should have:

• Good communication skills
• Know lots of people in the school community
• This is a great job for a past or current legislation chair, past president, past fundraising chair

There are two parts to the job:

• Communicate the benefits of the bond package to your community
• Recruit volunteers to help with the campaign

What will be expected?

• Campaign kickoff February 2
• Give 2-5 minute talk at every PTA meeting
• Forward emails to PTA
• Submit already prepared newsletter articles
• Make a list of 10 people we can send a fundraising letter to in early February
• Recruit people for Literature drops in March/April
• Recruit people for honk & wave in April
• Do mailing in April (VIS will make this very easy for each PTA to do)
• Distribute yard signs and magnets to PTA

Communicate the benefits of the bond package to your community
We will give you all of the materials you will need to effectively communicate the bond package. We will provide emails you can send, brochures you can hand out and a website for even more information.

Recruit volunteers to help with the campaign
This is crucial. It is against the law for the school district to have anything do with a bond campaign. The school district can give presentations on the pros/cons of the package and they can produce ONE piece of literature and mail it out. That is it. The rest of the campaign is done by volunteers, by us. So we need your help to recruit volunteers for:

Literature Drops – Every school will have parents and teachers meet at a designated location to walk neighborhoods and drop off literature on doorsteps.

Fundraising – We’ll ask you for a list of 10 people (even better if you can give us more) from your school that you think might donate money. You will provide their name, phone and address, we’ll do the rest.

Yard Signs – We will create the signs and give them to you, but we need them speak across the entire school district. You will find people who are interested in putting up yard signs for us.

Honk & Wave – The day the absentee ballots go out, and the day of the election we will stand at selected intersections across the district waving signs.

You might be feeling a bit overwhelmed at this point. Please don’t be, put as much or as little time into this as you can afford. Every bit that you contribute helps this campaign. Your role is significant because you build the grassroots organization. You DO NOT have to personally do everything that is listed, just help us find people who are willing to give some time to the campaign